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Originally Posted by Little.Egret
Here's author J.A. Sutherland on the same topic
http://www.jasutherlandbooks.com/201...-loss-leaders/
On a straight-up sale of one of my books at $4.99, I get a 70% royalty — about $3.40 (there’s a few cents Amazon charges on top for a “delivery” charge – basically for storage and bandwidth).
For KU, it’s a per-page payment, based on the pages read. A “page” is determined by how the book would render on a predetermined Kindle device. Queen’s Pardon, for instance, is considered to be 682 standard Kindle “pages”, no matter how you display it on your personal device. In general, we get about half a cent per page, so Queen’s Pardon gets me, roughly, $3 for a KU read. Very close to the full sale royalty, and an amount I’m happy with.
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Interesting. Sutherland is one of the authors that I read. If it works for him, great. Of course, one of the point that he makes later in the article is that there is zero transparency in how the pot is created or divided up each month. The author basically just trusts Amazon not to cheat him or her. I can already hear the howls of outrage if one of the publishers proposed the same scheme.